Improvement in horse-collars



M. GORDON.

.Improvement in Horse-Collars.

Patented Oct. 1'5,1,872.

INVENTOR.

WH'NESSES. yauw. jvwu/L/f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTHEW GORDON, or BRIGHTON, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 132,206, dated October 15, 1872.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known tl1at\ll,MATTIIEW GORDON, of Brighton, in the county of Washington and State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuableIrnprovenientin Horse Collars and Hanies 5 and Ik do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation of a front View of niy invention, with leather casing partly removed. Figs. 2 and 3 are details of the saine.

My invention has relation to a horse-collar which may be used without haines 5 and the novelty consists in the arrangement Within the collar of metal plates sufficiently flexible and inelastic to allow of the collarbeing fitted or adapted to the irregularities of the surface of the shoulders and chest ofthe horse. This flexibility and inelasticity extend to that degree that the collar may be readily adapted to any one horse not diiferin g greatly in size from the one to which it the rnost readily fits-z'. e., the flexibility of the plates will allow of the collar being taken from the one horse to which it had been fitted and placed upon another horse towhich it can as readily be fitted, and adapted to the irregularities of surfaces.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, A represents a leather-padded horse-collar constructed without the projecting rim usually provided for the reception ofthe haines. The top part of the collar at A is made sufficiently tracted so as to lie on the animals neck more easily, and adapt itself to the size thereof.

In placing the collar on the horses neck, the hinge-pin bis taken out. The sides of the collar Inay be then spread apart, and the collar arranged Without the necessity of forcing it over theanimals head. Within an inside pocket, next to the facing leather of each side of the collar, is arranged a exible inelastic strip of metal, d, fastened to the facing leather by means of rivets. These plates of metal, in addition to the function hereinbefore stated, serve to stiifen and strengthen the collar, and, also, to receive the staples e, holding the tracerings and loops g g, and other metal attachments. These` plates extend only as high up as shown in Fig. l.

I claiin- As anew article of manufacture, the horsecollar havingthe flexible inelastic plates of metal, arranged as and for the purposes herein recited.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed iny naine in the presence of two witnesses.

MATTHEW GORDON.

Witnesses ROBERT THOMPSON, J. K. EDWARDs. 

